president obama is as gifted as kennedy was intellectually. they even wept t went to the sae school and they both fine orders. and lots of teeth. and lots of prett iness. you have covered so many subjectses from oprah and 23457bsy reagan and more. what do you want to write about. >> i only choose people that have really left a foot print on our land scape. i choose people that are very much alive and have influenced our culture and have had immense power over us in that sense. and everyone that i have chosen for about biography i have been in awe a little bit. and wanted to go behind the curtain for the public image and what they are like. it was kennedy himself that said what makes a biography so interesting and fascinating is the search to find out what is he really like. going behind the curtain has made you face criticism. nancy sinatra said she hopes you get hit by a truck. oprah was so unhappy with her book semi got you black-balled. are their reactions fair. >> i think those reactions are typical. these people have spent a lifetime mill